The Dan Bongino Show - The Democrats Are In Tears # 1030 (Ep 1030)

Episode Date: July 25, 2019

In this episode I address the abomination on Capitol Hill known as the Mueller hearing. I also address John Solomon’s explosive new report on this key Spygate player. News Picks:Here are the top 5 questions Mueller refused to answer. Mueller issues a massive correction to his messy testimony. One of New York’s biggest papers agrees, the Mueller fiasco was a huge waste of time.  Conflicted and confused, Mueller’s hearing was a total disaster. The NYPD arrests the imbeciles accused of attacking the police with buckets. The Mueller report footnotes are devastating to his team’s credibility. Please read this piece about the myth of the “Clinton Surplus.” Copyright Dan Bongino All Rights Reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

get ready to hear the truth about america on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host dan bongino how how do you know you're hearing up on capitol hill if you're a democrat is an apocalyptic abomination like the muller hearing How do you know, Joe? You know when the Republican representatives start ceding their time to the chair and don't even ask questions at the end. Sir, do you have any more questions? I'm ceding my time to the chair. No, we're good.

Thank you. Guys sitting there. Hold on. Guys eating a French fry. You have any questions? No, I'm good. Yeah, turn it over to Nadler and Shifty. I'm good.

This is great. Just keep it going. What a disaster. You heard part one yesterday. Oh, what a mess. Welcome to the Dan Bongino Show. Producer Joe must get this in. How are you today?

I am doing well here. Just observing this train wreck right along with you. Oh, my gosh. Was it a train wreck? I mean, listen. wreck right along with you oh my gosh was it a train wreck i mean listen if uh folks uh you know if can i joe for a moment again i know self-praise stinks i know but can i just i predicted this yeah yeah i told you did i joe how many times did we say on this show let me give you the quotes dan bongino the mullers would thing will be a golden opportunity for Republicans. Dan Bongino, this will be a disaster for the Democrats.

I warned you. I warned the Democrats repeatedly. This was going to blow up in your face. And I mean, I have rarely in my 44 years on this planet seen a fiasco like I saw yesterday. So implode. Folks folks i've got some video on that i've got the john solomon story i've got an update on the mypd story we've got a stack show all right let me get into it today by the way about 114 times i've been thinking about it i think didn't we i think it's 114 i was not kidding it was not like me playing triple reverse

psychology like democrats gonna be a disaster don't do psychology. Democrats, it's going to be a disaster. Don't do it. I meant it. It was going to be a disaster. And sure enough, Joe, we were right. Again, all of our predictions come true. All right. Today's show brought to you by my favorite dog food company, Ollie. I'm going to call it. It's almost like

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reading to him. I thought it slowed things down, and I thought it really was a very ineffective defense of his own work. I don't think, by the way, he had to go after anybody or seem partisan or seem like he was doing anything more than a professional prosecutor would do, which was clearly and succinctly explain the evidence, explain the law, and show some passion, show some sense that the president's conduct here was concerning, that violated some sense of what the Constitution says a president should do. So I fear that this hearing set back efforts to hold the president accountable for what the president did

and also hold ultimately Russia accountable for what the president did and also hold ultimately russia accountable for what they did what what you're do you remember uh that what what is the the movie um with the bachelor party movie where they go to vegas the bro the guy from uh with lady gaga brad whatever name is it. What's it called? Hangover. The hangover where the crazy brother-in-law, he's laughing and he's holding it. And he's laughing. You remember that scene?

That was me listening to this. This is MSDNC. A full-time operative arm of the Democrat Party, MSDNC, where the analyst on there, this guy Jeremy Batch. And listen, thumbs up, brother. Good for you for being honest, talking about what a cosmic intergalactic disaster this

thing was for Mueller. Folks, I don't you know, I don't like ranty type shows because I like it to be informative. But I want to be clear on this. There's a reason I'm broadcasting this over two days. informative but i want to be clear on this there's a reason i'm broadcasting this over two days because as andrew breitbart once said you know politics is downstream of the culture the culture right now is the media we live in a 24-hour news cycle that dictates the narrative of the day bob muller could have knocked it out of the park yesterday and if mDNC says it stunk, then it sucked. End of story. What's making this even

worse, Joe, is Mueller didn't hit it out of the park. He totally face-planted in an apocalyptic fashion and even MSDNC has had to admit to their people, changing the culture. The politics is all

downstream. Impeachment is now dead. Dead as a, I mean, dead as a doornail. It is over. Now, in case you thought, well, what is his name, Jeremy Bash or whatever on MSDNC, that's an isolated incident. Uh, not so much. Here's Chuck

Todd, noted liberal activist, pretending to be a journalist. Here's Chuck Todd admitting the optics of this are awful. But wait, before we get to it, remember, politics is what, right? Politics is soundbites and snapshots. Those two things. It is pictures and soundbites. That's all politics is.

So Chuck Todd knows what he's talking about, about optics. Here's Chuck Todd. Because they were looking for this dramatic moment that would capture the imagination. And I think for those members of the member House Judiciary Committee, Democrats do believe they should start impeachment. The lack if that's what Bob Mueller thought was needed to done, needed to be done. He didn't do anything today to help advance that cause. And he believes that is where this should head folks i mean it's it's over okay politics is downstream of the culture the media is embodied in the

culture we're in a 24-hour saturation news cycle where you can rapidly change the zeitgeist of the day quickly. You don't need to have a transcontinental railroad transport a message from, you know, California territory to New York anymore. This whole impeachment thing just died in three hours yesterday on Capitol Hill. And the media is now being forced to acknowledge it. I cannot emphasize enough. When you go to a Republican congressman who has his moment in the sun in front of what, Joe? Probably 50 million people combined when this is done?

Social, I mean, I'm guessing. When you go to him and he's doing this. Oh, hold on. I'm clipping my nail. When he's clipping his nails on tv and he doesn't even want to ask a question uh rest assured your hearing was a total disaster yeah it's like who ordered the pepperoni yeah here it is down here to the left oh new nest that's you pepperoni can i get a slice of that you're right who's got the onion?

It was bad. Radcliffe was like, you're right. They're sitting there ordering like DoorDash. DoorDash is here. DoorDash has the Chipotle. That was so bad. Oh my gosh. I've never seen an implosion like that. Now, Paula was kind enough to put some quotes on the screen. Don't worry. I'll read them for you. Here are some quotes from other Democrats and leftists in case you think, and this is all just made up.

I'm not going to read them all, but here's ABC news is Terry Moran. Impeachment's over. I don't think Pelosi is going to stand for the members bringing forth something that is going to obviously lose in the Senate, lose with the American public. Obviously it's going to lose the American public because politics is

downstream of the culture. Here's J.D. Durkin from Cheddar, whatever that is. Mueller has told multiple Democrats today he doesn't agree with how they're characterizing part of their arguments on things like obstruction and the framing of the Trump Tower meeting. Ooh, liver shot. CNN's

Marshall Cohen, another guy all in on the collusion hoax for a long time. Mueller's style deprived Democrats of the made-for-TV moments they hope to create,

possibly moving the needle on impeachment. And believe me, he doesn't mean moving it in the impeachment direction. Finally, I'll go to Jake Tapper. You know, I like Jake.

Jake's a friend of mine. But this is his line. There were also times when it seemed like he was unfamiliar with parts of the investigation, like he didn't seem familiar with the name Fusion GPS, which we played on yesterday's show. Enough of that. You have Harsani and others.

You can check it out on the YouTube if you want to see them all on the YouTube channel. Folks, I'm really, I can't express to you enough how bad it was. All right, let's get to the actual hearing because I, again, I could go on all day about how awful this was. Who ordered's get to the actual hearing um because i again i could go on all day about how awful this water to pepperoni that's classic now when we get off the air yesterday we did yesterday's show please listen to this as a two-parter by the

way because they go together i'd said to you in the beginning of yesterday's show that muller had now changed his story for the third time in the OLC guidelines. The OLC guidelines say that you can't indict a sitting president. Mueller first said, no, that didn't factor into my decision to not indict the president. Then he said it did. Then he said it didn't. Then he tried to say yesterday again that it did. And then by the time we had finished recording the show, Mueller had already changed his story again for the fourth time in the OLC guidelines. Here's Bob Mueller explaining, just to be clear what he's saying, that because the OLC guidelines say you can't indict a president, that that isn't why he didn't indict the president.

That's why he didn't come to a conclusion, which is like seriously his 10th version of events. But it's not what the Democrats are telling you. Play the cut. I want to add one correction to my testimony this morning. I want to go back to one thing that was said this morning by Mr. Liu, who said, and I quote, you didn't charge the president because of the OLC opinion. That is not the correct way to say it. As we say in the report, and as I said at the opening we did not reach a determination as to whether the president committed a crime oh i don't even know how

many different versions of the story we've now heard from muller i can tell you that's the fourth time he's changed his mind but that is not the fourth iteration that is now and let me just go through quickly how and i'm joe i'm being delicate you and i spoke a little bit after the show again the golden rule of radio has never talked about but i don't care i hate golden rules i throw them all out um joe and i both are being sensitive to this and i got a lot of emails from people who said don't be sensitive to my folks i am I don't want to turn into a lunatic Democrat. I'm sorry. Right.

I don't. I appreciate your feedback. I sincerely mean that. But a lot of the emails were, just go after him. Don't caveat anything. Listen, people do good and bad things in their lives, okay? Mueller clearly did some very honorable things, and he's clearly done some very dishonorable things, including running an incredibly dishonorable investigation. But I'd be lying to you if I said, and I didn't agree with Joe yesterday, that what was one of

the saddest things I've ever seen. I'm not kidding, folks. I took no joy in that. I know we can be rough and kind of go at it and we got kind of a different style on the show. I get that. And I appreciate some of you like it, but I really, I am not kidding. I know Joe felt the same way, because like I said, after the show, we kind of chatted for a few minutes. There was no enjoyment in that at all. Nope. Watching what appeared to be a broken man who had no grasp of his own investigation stumble and fumble through a political sideshow set up by conspiracy theory, tinfoil hat wearing Democrats. I got no joy out of that.

None. No. You know, I believe in the new rules. We got to fight back. And man, we did yesterday. And God bless the GOP reps for doing a fantastic job. But watching Bob Mueller now change his story for probably the 10th time and the fourth time in just the last month is just deeply disturbing.

Oh, I would have indicted the president, but the OLC guidelines got in the way. Did they get in the way of the OLC guidelines? Bill Barr asked him. No, they didn't. Then he puts out a statement. I would have indicted him, but the OLC guidelines got away. You just said the opposite. And then he corrects himself right after the break.

All right, I'm done with this because the OLC thing is dead. And your liberal friends that tell you that are making a silly, ridiculous point. He did not indict the president because he didn't have the evidence. End of story. Put that thing to bed. I heard Juan Williams on The Five

still litigating this. Let it go, Juan. It's over. I'm sorry. Okay. Here is one of the finest clips of the day. Cause I do got a lot of other news to get to. And this Miss Sud story Solomon has is just mind blowing. Should let you know you didn't waste any of your time on the show. Right?

Matt Gates, excellent Republican Congressman from Florida. We start out a little rough Gates and I got to tell you, but I'm this guy. I'm really starting to like a lot. Gates just like, I mean, like I got to gotta back south border oh man every time he just fillets it up there i was in the barber shop listening to this on my phone yesterday i'm like go get him dude this is awesome it was

gates questions muller on this if muller's if if his overarching uh edict going forward was investigate Russians colluding in the election, that's what it was, right? Gates brings up this fascinating point that if there's only two possible scenarios with regard to the Steele dossier, and I want you to listen to this cut, either one, Christopher Steele got information from Russians

to interfere with our election, right, Joe? That's option one. Christopher Steele in his dossier was correct. He got the info from Russians. How do we know that? Because Christopher Steele said he got it from Russians, and the Russians interfered with our election. Option one.

Option two is that Christopher Steele lied, never spoke to Russians, or the Russians lied to him, and this has been a disinformation campaign the entire time, and Mueller and his team fell for it. Gates nails it in this cut. muller can you state with confidence that the steel dossier was not part of russia's disinformation campaign no i said it the uh my opening statement i'm the that uh part of the uh building of the case was pred predated me by at least 10 months. Yeah, I mean, Paul Manafort's alleged crimes regarding tax evasion predated you. You had

no problem charging them. And matter of fact, this Steele dossier predated the attorney general, and he didn't have any problem answering the question. When Senator Cornyn asked the attorney general the exact question I asked you, director, the attorney general said, and I'm quoting, no, I can't state that with confidence. And that's one of the areas I'm reviewing. I'm concerned about it, and I don't think it's entirely speculative. Now, if something is not entirely speculative, then it must have some factual basis. But you identify no factual basis regarding the dossier or the possibility that it was part of the Russia disinformation campaign. Now, Christopher Steele's reporting is referenced in your report. Steele reported to the

FBI that senior Russian foreign ministry figures, along with other Russians, told him that there was, and I'm quoting from the Steele dossier, extensive evidence of conspiracy between the Trump campaign team and the Kremlin. So here's my question. Did Russians really tell that to Christopher Steele or did he just make it all up and was he lying to the FBI? Let me back up a second if I could and say as I said earlier with regard to the Steele that that's beyond my purview. No, it is exactly your purview, Director Mueller, and here's why. Only one of two things is possible, right? Either Steele made this whole thing up and there were never any Russians telling him of this vast criminal conspiracy that

you didn't find, or Russians lied to Steele. Now, if Russians were lying to Steele to undermine our confidence in our duly elected president, that would seem to be precisely your purview because you stated in your opening that the organizing principle was to fully and thoroughly investigate russia's interference but you weren't interested in whether or not russians were interfering through christopher steel and if steel was lying then you should have charged him with lying like you charged a variety of other people but you say nothing about this in your report i feel like i got an everlasting gobstock we're like heimlich self-heimlich

what what just happened what you know sometimes show i feel like our show is like mystery science theater 3000 we're watching this movie and you and i are like these two robots coming here what was that what just happened he muller has no idea clearly what gates is even talking about gates summed it up beautifully either steals lying and was the victim of a russian disinformation campaign to impact their election or steals telling the truth and the Russians openly were engaged in an effort to impact their election. Mr. Mueller, I thought you were investigating Russian collusion.

Uh, that's beyond my purview. Gates is like, that's exactly your purview. What are you talking about? What are you talking about? This is a Smiles Manly moment. This is, you got to watch yesterday's show for the reference. He's just, he doesn't get it.

Do you understand why this matters? Folks, as I said to a friend who shall remain nameless, when I was talking about this, the questions, everybody knew Mueller wasn't going to answer. It's the questions that matter. The questions are your statements.

It's not Mueller's answer. Mueller's never going to answer because he doesn't have an answer. What is Mueller going to say? Yeah, we got worked over by Steele. Sorry. My bad. Like Nelson Muntz from The Simpsons. Eh-heh.

But I said eh-heh. I mean, what's he going to do? He got worked. Yeah. So I said to this guy, don't worry about the answers. Just ask the questions. You have now millions of people watching who are going to say, people would open, I'm not talking about the tinfoil cap liberal.

They're, forget them. I always tell you, you're not debating liberals. You're debating for the third guy listening to you. There are independents out there who watch Gates and I'm sure said, wow, that makes a lot of sense. Mueller's investigating Russian collusion. Why is he investigating Steele? It smells mainly. They don't know. There's no answer to that. All right. I've got two more from the hearing and then we're going to move on i've got a couple other things to get to i don't want to batter you over the head with this stuff but it is the most important hearing in the last two or three years yes sir and we need to do a good thorough job so

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Gohmert just go in beast mode. He's completely fed up, Gohmert, with Peter Stroke, the FBI investigator. Some guy gets upset. He emails me. It's Stroke. It's Stroke. I don't care what his name is.

He's Stroke on this show. I love your feedback. You're the best. It's Stroke. Gohmert has no patience for Stroke at all. Stroke was the investigator on this case he knew there was no there there in his own words kept investigating texting his girlfriend engaged in totally unethical behavior and gomert has a real bug up his caboose for stroke so here's gomert

filleting bob muller about stroke when he got fired what the heck this guy was doing on the team at all check this out did he mention the firing of james comey in your discussion with him cannot remember pardon cannot remember don't believe so i'm not going to be you don't remember but if he did you could have been a fact witness as to the president's comments and state of mind on firing james come. I suppose that's possible. Yeah. So most prosecutors want to make sure there's no appearance of impropriety. But in your case, you hired a bunch of people that did not like the president.

Let me ask you, when did you first learn of Peter Strzok's animus toward Donald Trump? In the summer of 2017. You didn't know before he was hired? I'm sorry? You didn't know before he was hired for your team? Know what? Peter Strzok hated Trump. Okay.

You didn't know that before he was made part of your team. Is that what you're saying? I did not know that. All right. When did you first learn? When he did find out, I acted swiftly to have him reassigned elsewhere in the FBI. Well, there's some discussion about how swift that was, but when did you learn of the ongoing affair he was having with Lisa Page? About the same time I was struck. Did you ever order anybody to investigate the deletion of all of their checks off of their government phone?

Paula, can we get a beast mode alarm? Beast mode and like a... Joe, remember you had your Nunes translator and the other stuff? Can you do a beast mode alarm? We need a beast mode and like a... Joe, remember you had your Nunes translator and the other stuff? Can you do a beast mode? We need a beast mode. Beast mode.

Louie Gohmert going total beast mode. He has no patience whatsoever for Stroke and Comey, which I love. Because again, it was sad with Mueller. Yeah. But listen, the Democrats did this, not us. And it's up to us to bring it. And Gohmert brought the heat. There's not much to add to that

other than we know Stroke was, this investigation was horrible. He was the lead investigator, was having an affair. We get it. I just wanted to put it out there that they did not, because I,

you know, sometimes a lot of our anger is directed at the GOP too, notably so, especially for this crappy budget deal they're putting out there. But I'm telling you folks, they brought it yesterday. They brought out

the relevant facts and they challenged Mueller. When did you fire this guy? When did you find out? And he asks him the key question which Mueller doesn't answer because he can't. Because there are missing and deleted messages from Stroke's phone, did you investigate why? Notice what Mueller does, Joe.

Looking around for help again. He doesn't know what to say. There's no answer there. Because remember, when Hillary and Stroke and the Mueller team find deleted emails and texts, it's not a big deal. But God forbid Donald Trump doesn't turn over 10 million emails and misses one.

It's a federal investigation. What a joke. Hat tip Louie Gomer for pointing it out. I saved the best for last. This is a short one. It kind of cuts off a little bit at the end because I didn't want to go. Some of these videos are a little long and I didn't want to bombard you. You've had a lot yesterday,

but this is folks is a perfect time to extend the hat tip and a, and a big one, a sincere, heartfelt, strong hat tip to a guy who has become a friend and is a good man, Devin Nunes. Devin. Hey, Devin. I mean it, man. You get a big round of applause from me.

Nunes has been marshalling this investigation at great personal expense to himself. I mean, personally, I'm not talking about money wise. I mean, under relentless, ruthless assault by the tinfoil cap media and the hacks who hate him. Devin Nunes, this country owes a sincere, heartfelt debt of gratitude for staying on this and never letting this go. Now, Nunes had a lot to say yesterday. I'm not going to go through it all, but I'm going to hit these highlights. Nunes knows this case like no one else. And again, forget the answer.

Mueller didn't have any answers to anything. He stumbled and fumbled embarrassingly through this whole Democrat clown show yesterday. Forget the answer here. The questions are the statements. They are the answers. And Nunes knows exactly what to ask. Now, folks, showing you that we have not wasted your time on this show for two years. I would I'd have to go off the air if I did that. Like Rachel Maddow, who humiliate herself. There are three sets of people we've highlighted. We've highlighted a lot, but highlighted extensively. Joseph Mifsud, we'll talk about that in a little bit.

We've only been talking about Misfud for a year and a half. We've highlighted Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who meets with Don Jr. because Veselnitskaya is tied to the Clinton team. And we have highlighted recently Christopher Steele admitting to the State Department, Kathleen Kavalec, that his sources were Trebnikov and Surkov, two Russian disinformation specialists. Now that you know that,

and you've been listening to my show for a while, listen to Devin Nunes' question. That's really a statement. He knows Mueller's not going to going to answer but now he knows the media is going to have to pay attention check this gem out there's a guy named Glenn Simpson who's working for Hillary Clinton Glenn Simpson you know how many times Glenn Simpson met with Natalia Vlasnikskaya? Myself? No. Would it surprise you that the Clinton campaign dirty ops arm met with Natalia Vlasnikskaya more times than the Trump campaign did? Well this is an area that I'm not gonna get into as I indicated at the outset. Did you ever interview Glenn Simpson?pson i'm again i'm going to pass on that

according to i'm going to change topics here um according to notes from the state department official kathleen kavalak christopher still told her that former Russian intelligence head Trubnikov and he knows exactly what happened in this case and he refuses to give up so Natalia Veselnitskaya you spent what 3,500 words Bob Mueller in your report talking about this Russian lawyer that met with Don Jr. yet that Russian lawyer met with the guy hired by the Hillary team more times than they met with Trump, but that you're not concerned about that at all? I'm not going to answer. Of course you're not going to answer that because you can't.

Just like you couldn't answer Gohmert about the deleted texts, you couldn't answer Radcliffe, you couldn't answer Ted Lieu, you couldn't answer anything because the investigation was a horrible, dishonorable witch hunt it was awful you did an awful job a job and sadly it is going to stain your reputation for the rest of your life and history will not be kind i was almost almost feeling bad for me. I'm sad for him, but I almost felt, until I realized the Democrats did this, not us. There's Nunes again. Folks, it's up to us, even though he's a congressman.

I know he may not be your congressman in your district. Some of you is. I get a lot of emails. We get a lot of listeners in California. We have to support guys like that. Not telling you what to do with your money or your time, but there are a few of them left. Not everybody's going to be with us on every issue, but this Spygate scandal is the most important police state issue of our time.

And this guy has been a beast on it. He knows exactly what to ask. Don't think for a second some independents weren't listening to that yesterday going, really? Some independents weren't listening to that yesterday going, really? So the Russian that met with Don Jr. that the Democrats are telling us is evidence of a conspiracy actually met with Hillary's team more? Yeah, that's right. And as I say, cut it off at the end, but Trubnikov and Surkov are in there too, which he asks about.

Promising you, I have not wasted your time. Our sources are awesome. Hat tip 279 and the other ones out there. You know who you are. Alright, moving on. So John Solomon, I wanted to get to this piece that came out, was it Wednesday night or so on Hannity? The Misfit story, folks, is now

blowing up again. Another tactical nuke dropped on the battlefield by John Solomon, this Hill piece about Joseph Mifsud. Headline, Robert Mueller soon may be exposed as the magician of omission on Russia. This piece came out before his testimony. Yeah,

this is a gem. It is in the show notes. Please look it up. Please subscribe to my email list at bongino.com. I will send you these articles every day. I pick the five to seven best ones out there. They're also at my website if you want to check them out. Here's the gist of his article.

Joseph Mifsud starts this whole thing. Joseph Mifsud allegedly told Papadopoulos back in 2016, in early 2016, in the spring, Papadopoulos, a Trump advisor, told him about these Russians got dirt on Hillary.

That story's disputed by everybody involved. Nobody believes it anymore. Even Mifsud doesn't. But even playing the Democrats' game, the Democrats' whole conspiracy theory is Mifsud and Mueller's, by the way, and Comey's too. Mifsud was working for the Russians. The Russians had dirt on Hillary. Mifsud told Papadopoulos

and therefore Papadopoulos was like an accessory to this crime because they were trying to trade this campaign information. You get it? Joe, make sense? Oh yeah. It's as simple as that. Oh yeah. Easy. Ladies and gentlemen, the core of this whole story, to hook everybody in, long fraud,

to hook everybody in is that Mifsud had to be working for the Russians. It can't be a collusion conspiracy if Mifsud's trafficking information for the Russians, if Mifsud's not working for the Russians. You dig? Not hard, right? That'll do it. Let's pull up. Yeah, that'll do. Thank you.

Excellent. There we go. Who got the pepperoni from the John Solomon piece? Sorry, article. Guy doesn't like it when I say piece. Another guy, see, I read your emails. I hate it when you say piece. A piece of what?

From the article. I'll make you happy for today. Ms. Sud was, quote, a longtime cooperator of Western Intel. Western, meaning friendlies, not Russian, who was asked specifically by his contacts at Lincoln Rome, the university and the London Center, two academic groups with ties to Western diplomacy and intelligence, to meet with Papadopoulos at a dinner in Rome in mid-March 2016, Ms. Sud's lawyer told Solomon.

It goes on. it gets even better. A May 2019 letter from Devin Nunes to U.S. intel officials corroborates some of Roe's account, revealing photos showing that the FBI conducted training at Link in the fall of 2016 and that Mifsud and other Link officials met regularly with world leaders, including Boris Johnson, elected today as Britain's new prime minister, a picture of which was shown at Mueller's hearing yesterday. Ladies and gentlemen, if you believe this story that Mifsud was a Russian agent, I am sorry, but you are a sucker.

Joe, I, Paula, Joe, me, Paula, we have been talking about this for a year and a half now. Audience, archivists, Judy's always sending me shows. Look, he's talked about this in episode whatever, 630. We're at episode 1030. Mifsud was not a Russian agent, folks. His connections are to Western intel people. His lawyer is on the record with photos of Mifsud with Western friendlies.

Boris Johnson. He worked at the Link University where the FBI conducted training. Folks, can I ask you a common sense question? I'm a former investigator. You don't have to be one to figure this out. If Joseph Mifsud is a Russian agent involved in the trafficking of Hillary Clinton's emails and the biggest political conspiracy of our time, and he was working at a university where the FBI conducts training

and Western diplomats frequent, where's the damage assessment? I'm not kidding. It's not a joke. Where's the damage assessment? Now, I was not an intel official. I was a Secret Service agent. I dealt with intel people often, all the time, for reasons beyond the scope of this podcast.

I've explained it in other shows. You go overseas, you have to deal with the CIA. You want to because they have the intel on the ground. I'll leave it there. I know how they work. I was not one, but I'm intimately familiar with how they work. Ladies and gentlemen, when you have an incident where you may have been infiltrated by a Russian agent,

there is a damage assessment done. What information does he or she have? Have they accessed computers? Have they compromised sources? Where was the damage assessment on Mifsud if he was a Russian agent teaching at an academy frequented by FBI and friendlies? The answer is, ladies and gentlemen,

I will bet you dollars to donuts, there wasn't one. Why? Because Mifsud was not a Russian agent. That's why. And people at the FBI are not going to sign their John Hancock on a form that he is when he's not. Comey can say it all he wants in his book.

So can Mueller. There is no evidence that Mifsud is a Russian agent now to be fair and give you the entire picture unlike the hacks in the media there is substantial evidence evidence excuse me

that Mifsud knew people in Russia had relationships in Russia folks nobody should run that's not a crime. It's not even close to a crime. Joe knows people in Russia. So do I. A Russian guy, when I did a presidential visit back in 2000, gave me

his officer watch. I thought there was like a bug in it at the time. I still have it somewhere. It's not a crime to know Russians. Knowing Russians and saying Msoud is working with the Russian government to impact the U.S. election, trafficking in Hillary's emails, are two entirely distant, completely different universes. There is no evidence Massoud is a Russian agent. None.

There's lots of evidence he knows Russians. Those are not the same thing. Gosh, is this hard? Is this hard to figure out? Even worse from Solomon's piece, as he indicates, Mueller's report seems to

indicate that, oh, you know, Ms. Sud was setting this whole thing up with the Russians to meet with Papadopoulos. Go back and rewind the tape. That's not what Solomon says in his piece. Solomon's article is completely different, Joe. It says the link people asked Ms. Sood to set the meeting up. Ms. Sood didn't push it. Joe, kind of a different story, isn't it?

Oh, he was working with the Russians. Well, actually, the link people told him to do it. Second portion of the Solomon article here. A few days after the March dinner, they're talking about the March dinner between Ms. Sood and Papadopoulos, where this whole fiasco allegedly starts here.

A few days after the March dinner, Rose, Ms. Sood's lawyer, added, Ms. Sood received instructions from Link's superiors to, quote, put Papadopoulos in contact with Russians. Oh, my gosh. If there was ever a smoking gun, this is it. that works with the FBI and is frequented by Western intel and friendlies, instructed him, Ms. Sood, to put Papadopoulos in contact with Russians? Ladies and gentlemen, kind of sounds like a setup to me, doesn't it?

Yeah, daddy. We've only been saying it for a year and a half. Welcome to the party, pal, to quote Bruce Willis and Sergeant Al. Solomon goes on, including a think tank figure named Ivan Timoviev and a woman he was instructed to identify to Papadopoulos as Vladimir Putin's niece. Oh, this gets just juicy. Ms. Sud knew the woman was not the Russian president's niece, but rather a student who was involved with both the Link and LCILP campus,

and the professor believed there was an effort underway to determine whether Papadopoulos was an agent provocateur seeking foreign contacts, Roe said. Folks, this story on Ms. Sood, which was hammered yesterday by the fantastic Jim Jordan, another stunningly good member of Congress. The story you've been told about Ms. Sood,

Ms. Sood's working with Russians, connects with the Trump team, traffics in Hillary's emails or says he's going to, is a lie. He was told to set up the meeting. He was told to set up Papadopoulos. Tell this guy that's Putin's niece. He knew it wasn't Putin's niece. They told him to say it. Who's told him to say it?

According to his own lawyer, Ms. Sud's lawyer, the Link Campus people, who, by the way, the Link Campus where the FBI works and Western intel officials, friendlies frequent it. Western Intel officials. Friendlies frequent it. Folks, don't be a sucker. Please. Please don't be a sucker for this delusional Russia hoax. The Massoud story is dead.

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It is so worth your time. Here's the takeaway from the piece. Mueller hid a lot of his embarrassing details of his now entirely discredited report. He hid the embarrassing details, Joe, in the footnotes thinking nobody was going to read them. Now, I did. I did because I know the trick. I know exactly

how that works. But I got to be honest with you. This guy Felton picked out things that I guess in going through 400 pages, we just didn't, they didn't ring a bell at the time. So Felton, Eric Felton, good job. Here are a couple takeaways from the—I forgot. I got to switch over my page here. Here we go.

This is yesterday's. Here's footnote number 1024 from Felton's piece. This is fantastic. Let me just set this up. Keep that up on the screen for a second. Remember George Nader, the guy who was accused of all these sex crimes? Yeah. Mueller used this guy as a source. Nader's represented by Obama's lawyer,

Catherine Rumler, in the fixer. You remember the George Nader story. Here's a footnote, 1024 on page 150 of Mueller's report. George Nader, on January 22nd, 2018, the FBI 302. There's a reference to FBI's memo, known as the 302, of a January interview with George Nader

identified in the Mueller report as advisor to the UAE crown prince. This is funny, Joe. So they're trying to establish Russian collusion. Listen to how flimsy this is. This is in a footnote. Nader, I'm going to say this in a nefarious tone. Nader spoke with a Russian who was attending the 2016 world chess championships in new york and that russian expressed an interest in meeting trump

nader also told the fbi that an unnamed chess federation official quote had recalled hearing from an unknown attendee that Trump had stopped by the tournament. Whoa. Whoa. This reminds me of remember the look of shock in The Amazing Spider-Man 2

when Sally Field busts in the room on Andrew Garfield and he's got the smoke on his face and she goes, what happened Peter? And he goes, oh I was i was cleaning the chimney she goes we don't have a chimney he goes what what that's your footnote this is this this is in the report jeez you can look it up go to the mother footnote 1024 a guy now accused of devastating sex crimes who's being represented by Obama's fixer told the FBI in January that another guy told him he recalled hearing that Trump wanted to stop by a chess tournament in New York that a Russian dude was at. Folks, this is real. This is not a joke. This is not the damn Bongino comedy hour.

That's a real footnote. A dude accused of sex crimes represented by Obama's lawyer told a dude that another dude told him another dude recalled hearing that Trump wanted to stop by a chess tournament that a Russian was at. Any major dude will tell you. We haven't, I haven't busted out. Sorry. Oh, I don't know the illegal procedure sign. I'm sorry. Someone's got to send me a diagram, but that's a 15 yarder.

Repeat first down. What's up here? Legal procedure. I just made a new sign. Legal procedure. 15 yards. Repeat first down. That's a real footnote, folks.

Why would you even humiliate yourself? You may be asking yourself this now. Fair enough. Why would you put that in there? Now that I'm done laughing at that. Folks, you put it in there because they don't have anything else. You think Mueller's not dumb. Okay, he's not.

He conducted a dishonorable investigation and frankly embarrassed himself on the Hilliard. It was sad. It was sad to watch. Mueller is not dumb. Mueller and Weissman put that in there, folks, and hid it in the footnotes because they don't have anything else. Oh, my gosh. Here's another footnote where he floats conspiracy theories about why Trump allegedly obstructed an investigation. Mueller said on the record he never obstructed.

Check this out from the Felton piece. This is footnote 500. Check this out from the Felton piece. This is footnote 500. It states, in particular, Michael Cohen was a potential subject of investigation because of his pursuit of a Trump Tower Moscow project and involvement in other activities. And facts uncovered in the Russia investigation, which our office referred to the Southern District of New York, ultimately led to the conviction of Cohen in the Southern District of New York for campaign finance operations related to the president. He said he made it the direction of the president. Let me go to the top.

They considered, go back to that for a second. I read it kind of out of order for a reason. We considered whether the president's intent in firing Comey was connected to other conduct that could come to light as the result of the FBI's Russia interference investigation. Folks, let me let me translate Mueller speak, Weissman speak, Zebley, Jeanne Reese speak what that means. We need it.

That whole. I thank you as an audience on Budgeman. This is your job, right? Yeah. What Mueller's saying there is, although there was no effort to obstruct the investigation into collusion because collusion didn't exist, he floats a conspiracy theory that Trump obstructed the investigation because he was afraid Michael Cohen would talk about other conspiracy theories that he referred out that might exist. You dig? Yeah.

In other words, you explained it, yeah. You get it? Mueller knows collusion's a hoax. He has to admit it in part one of his report. There's nothing there. So it's hard in part two, an obstruction case, for him to make a case that Trump obstructed a crime, an investigation into a crime that didn't happen. So what Mueller does in the footnote,

which Felton geniusly points out, this was great, is he floats a conspiracy theory, like acting like Sigmund Freud here, talking about the hidden superego. He gets in Trump's head and he figures that, no, no, Trump is really obstructing, not to hide the crime that didn't happen that we're investigating, but subsequent crimes that we referred out later that may be connected to Trump, but we can't prove are connected to Trump because we're not charging Trump. That's, if that Trump. But we can't prove are connected to Trump. Because we're not charging Trump.

If that doesn't make sense to you. It shouldn't. Because it was a total conspiracy theory by Mueller. And an embarrassing one at that. Bob. And the reason we know it's embarrassing. Is it's embedded in the footnotes. In little tiny print at the bottom.

You know. This time it is a cigar. Just a cigar. You know, this time it is a cigar. Just a cigar. You know? You know what I'm saying? Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Oh, yes. Oh, yes.

I know exactly what you're saying. You know, baby. Okay. Let's let that one stew a minute. Yes, we shall. Going back to today's notes, the book. Should auction this book off, Paula, for like a veg charity. I don't think I have any personal info, right?

That'd be cool. This is the book. This is the Bible of the Dan Bongino show right here. It's great. I got, I'm actually going in order lately. We've been doing good. I want to give you an update on two quick things, okay? Number one, the NYPD story, that disgraceful video we showed you the other day.

There's cops being attacked with buckets, having water thrown on them. A couple of idiots email me. They're libs that listen to the show. Listen, you're welcome here, but it was a dumb email. Oh, so what? They threw water on them. Folks, are you serious? Are you serious?

You don't know what was in there. These are cops. They have to have firearms that function, equipment that works. So now you're going to throw water. I mean, defending this is so beyond asinine. I didn't even respond to the emails. I was like defending this is so beyond asinine. I didn't even respond to the emails. I was like, this is so dumb.

Just delete this stupidity. You went right to junk for that one. But these guys that thought they got away with it did not. The New York Post, here's a piece of it. It'll be in the show notes. Multiple suspects in custody for dousing the NYPD cops with water. All right. Folks, thank God.

All right. Yeah. Listen, I know Nikita de Blasio is the worst mayor in the country. The guy's a disgrace to the human gene code. He's a disgrace to humankind. He's a disgrace to mammals. He's a disgrace to oxygen-breathing,

respiratory function organisms. He's a disgrace to multicellular organism, single-celled organisms, the animal kingdom. de Blasio is an apocalypse for the DNA code, okay? Nikita de Blasio is a disaster. Point stipulated.

But my experience with the NYPD and working there is they aren't going to take crap from this mayor anymore. They are going to do their jobs. They are going to do mayor anymore. They are going to do their jobs. They are going to do it effectively. They're going to do it professionally. And these guys were not going to get away with this.

And they didn't. And as it turned out, the men that were arrested, you can read it in the report, one of them's alleged to be a gang member, of course, which shouldn't surprise anybody. That's why when I harped on the other day, the broken windows theory. Oh, so what? It was just a bucket of water. So what? It was just a turnstile jumper.

Broken windows policing, which Rudy Giuliani implemented, changed all of that. There was no more so what's. Everybody who commits a crime got locked up. Because why, folks? Because they were probably the gang member shooting a joint up the next day.

This guy's alleged to be a gang member. Everybody's innocent until proven guilty, unlike the liberals. But read the allegations in the Post piece. They are very serious. It's not just a bucket of water. Wake up, if you think otherwise. Okay, final story of the day

because I owe you some commentary on this and as more details of it come out on Friday's show, hopefully I'll get into it. By the way, Friday, I will be on The Five. Please watch it. I promise you some flames. I don't know who's going to be there, Juan or whoever else,

but Friday, The Five, 5 p.m. Eastern on Fox. I'll be flying up, flying back same day. Please don't miss it. I'm getting all pent up, ready to rock and roll. So don't miss the five. And I'll be on Hannity tonight at my regular Thursday night hit. So check that out. The budget deal that they've apparently reached is a disaster, folks. Some quick takeaways from it. I'm sorry. I don't, you know, I support the president, but I don't know why I can't support the administration on this.

It's a disaster. I don't know what they agreed to. It busts the budget caps, the sequester, what you'll hear referred to on TV as the BCA, the Budget Control Act, signed by Obama, believe it or not, with the Republican-led House, that put caps, a lid

on government spending. They blew these caps out of the water and have added another $320 billion over two years in spending. Ladies and gentlemen, we're walking off a cliff. Here's a piece that was in the show notes on Monday. Art of the budget deal.

Trump-Pelosi agree to up spending and debt. No. The president has already stated on the record that he was not going to sign another deal like this. I understand he's in a bind with the House. But folks, we cannot watch the country walk off a cliff into a debt abyss like this. I'm sorry.

Now, the president said that he's going to tackle this after this reelection. No, it's too late. We need to tackle this now. The funding for the border wall is largely absent. The funding for the military is decent, which is important. But folks, it blows the budget caps out of the water. I've been getting a lot of emails on this. It is a bad deal.

Please email your congressmen and your senators. This is a bad deal. No deal. This is a guaranteed bankruptcy deal. No more. So Dan, what's your suggestion? Fair enough. You want the budget caps and the sequester caps.

You want them instilled. We have to do it. I'm sorry. Military, we have to do it. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm sorry. We have to do it. We are going bankrupt. You want the budget caps reinstituted.

Something's got to give. All right. I promised another stack show on Friday. I've got a lot of material been pent up the entire week. So I really appreciate it. Thanks to everyone who picked up my second book, by the way, on pre-order exonerated. We smoked it up the charts on Amazon the other day. I really appreciate that. You're a really loyal fan base. It means a lot to me. Please subscribe to our show, youtube.com slash Bongino, Apple Podcasts, and Google Podcasts, iHeart, SoundCloud as well.

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